Business Information Systems reviews

The negatives of the company can be some pretty heavy ones at times. You’ll get two weeks vacation that you begin earning after 6 months but you’ll feel guilty about actually taking it. Reason being, the company has very tight deadlines and over promises on those pretty frequently. With that tight of deadlines, it can leave employees feeling guilty about taking their time off simply because they don’t want to put their team behind schedule. The company also has no defined PTO policy but usually will grant PTO for doctor’s appointments and various other things. However, just like with vacation, most people feel guilty about taking the time off so they will only take a few hours or a day at most. Medical insurance isn’t the greatest, despite what the company preaches in its yearly insurance meeting. For a single person it does okay, but for a family the price is “comparable to the national average” but the coverage you get for it just isn’t. Retirement match was only 3%, which I considered to be low but not a huge negative in the end. Really at the end of the day it all boils down to some good people stuck in really bad situations with their hands tied behind their back by the decisions of the company. The best part of it all is that you’ll be told that the salary is competitive for the area and when you factor in cost of living that you’d not be making any more money by moving to find another job. In the tech industry especially, that can’t be farther from the truth at this point. People are no longer locked to finding jobs just in their small area and even if they are, the industry grows by double digit percentages year after year. Overall, if you need starting experience as a developer then you take whatever dev position you can get at the company.

I remember reading some of the glassdoor reviews before I started working at BIS. Some were good, others ok, quite a few negative. In hindsight, I really should've listened to the negative ones. Because this garbage company deserves negative stars. Working at BIS was a total nightmare that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. There are some decent folks here, but for every person who is tolerable, there are four or five who are complete and utter jerks. Hope you like profanity, because you'll be hearing lots and lots of it at this company (even though the handbook prohibits it). Work was incredibly stressful and repetitive which was made exponentially worse by the absolutely bonkers decisions managers made. Almost every single task you have to do is a lot harder than it needs to be due to rules that make no sense. If you make a mistake, you'll have it hung over your head for the rest of your time here, even if it wasn't entirely your fault, it was likely due to rules that were just then made up by management. You'll be picked over for promotions by folks who have been there less time than you and are less competent than you. But the worst part about this awful company is the pay. It is abysmally low. I was literally shocked when I was told what me starting pay would be. I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad. Sure, you can get raises, but they just creep along, it'll be years and years and years before you're making a decent salary.